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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
  Do you ever sneak over to The Market Bulletin to check out the current state of the Tallahassee Housing Market? A lot of people do, as we get many of our questions at CENTURY 21 First Realty that are based upon the information that is posted there twice a week. This is a simple, one-page, real estate website designed to put out a quick opinion on supply and demand of homes in Tallahassee. The Market Bulletin includes charts, graphs, and analysis of the Tallahassee real estate market based upon information that can be currently found in the Tallahassee MLS. Another great Tallahassee housing resource that you can always find at The Market Bulletin is the FREE download-able supply and demand report for the Tallahassee housing market. This current Supply and Demand For Tallahassee Housing...
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By Mike Carlos, Realtor, Tallahassee FL
(Keller Williams Town & Country Realty)
This summer has been great for the Tallahassee real estate market.  We have seen some signs of improving conditions.  By that I mean homes have been selling a little bit faster than previously because there has been more buyer activity.  There has also been a small retraction of the total number of homes for sale which is also a good sign.  However there has been no sign of prices going back up just yet, as we still an over supply of homes for sale and the foreclosures and short sales are still putting downward pressure on prices. Here is what to watch for... The next 4 months are generally the slowest for the market so we have that to face at the same time that the first time home buyer tax incentive comes to an end.  Some say the end of the year could bring about a sharp decline in pr...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
By Benjamin Moore Paint What is Color?   View Colors View Colors Defining ColorThe perception of color is a phenomenon of light - a form of energy with its own frequency and wavelength. Shine a light through a prism and you'll see it divide into six color families: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.White light is the combination of all colors, while black is the absence of all colors.We perceive color due to the pigments in a given object. A blue pillow appears blue to our eyes because the pigment in the pillow is absorbing all the colors of the light except for the color blue reflecting back to us.   Color and LightHave you ever tried to match a color swatch in a store only to find it looks like a completely different color when you bring it home? You've just experienced met...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
  Neighborhood reports have always been popular when we do them both here in the blog as well as on the Tallahassee Real Estate Web Site. It seems that many people in Tallahassee want to know what’s happening with home valuations in the many Tallahassee subdivisions that we have. A Tallahassee neighborhood that we have featured for several years now is Golden Eagle Plantation. One of several golf course communities in the northeast side of Tallahassee, Golden Eagle offers larger homes with golf course and lake view properties, all bundled inside of a gated community. Because we discuss valuations in the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog on a regular basis, I will assume the reader knows that all of the Tallahassee housing market is in a decline, both in the number of homes sold as well as in...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
The crash of the housing market nationwide has made real estate a hot topic for news people and fiction writers alike for more than two years. It seems that no matter where you look, somebody has something new to say about the current state of the housing market, yet they usually reference their story with hearsay or a biased assessment from a specific lobby. The toughest thing about trying to sell a home today is determining who is giving the correct guidance and advice. There is so much bias in both spoken and written reports that frustrated homeowners can be confused very easily. Home Sellers Beware Corrupted News The Homebuilder lobby pushes hard to show that new homes need to be built. Wouldn’t you if you made your living building homes? Just take their reports (or at least their ...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
Artificial Light Color rendition appears warm under incandescent and halogen lights. Reds and yellows are enhanced and blues and greens are culled. Under the cool cast of fluorescent lights, blues and greens are enhanced, while reds and yellows are muted.
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
Just a reminder, the Tallahassee Real Estate Newsletter goes out again today. If you are a subscriber, then the email and link are either in your inbox or your spam filter. If you are not a subscriber,  you can subscribe very easily in the link above or the graphic at the end of this post. Average real estate prices continue to drop in the Tallahassee real estate market, with the exception of condos/townhouses. One has to remember that the drop in average prices does not absolutely represent depreciation, rather it represents the prices that buyers are currently buying. One has to measure both the average price as well as the comparative changes in the “average” house in order to determine whether or not depreciation is occurring. We know from previous blog articles that home prices in ...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
Direct Sunlight Considered the ideal light source, natural sunlight maintains a neutral balance between both the warm (yellow cast) and cool (blue cast) ends of the light spectrum. Northern light is the coolest, while light from a southern exposure is the strongest. Direct sunlight provides the "truest" rendition of colors in a room. View Colors     Indirect Sunlight Natural sunlight is not consistent. It changes from sunrise to noon, to late afternoon and dusk. The intense golden rays and distinct shadows of a sunny, late afternoon can have a profound effect on the colors in a room.
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
I am writing today’s blog from historic Hotel Thayer located at West Point, NY. My family and I are snugly fit into a room overlooking the United States Military Academy and the Hudson River, so today’s blog will be short but bountiful. Real estate graphs often provide a much clearer picture of what is going on in the housing market than merely reading the numbers. With this in mind, I have selected four graphs to provide both a clear picture of where the Tallahassee real estate market is today, as well as how that compares to the past 20 years. July Housing Report Sees Continued Decline The real estate graph above shows the one-year trend on both unit sales as well as the average sales price of a home in Tallahassee. The unit sales trend is far lower than any point in the past 20 year...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
The type of light under which color is viewed impacts how we perceive a particular hue. Temperature Whether we perceive a color as warm or cool is relative to the particular color and its surrounding colors. Generally, reds, yellows, and oranges are warm colors, while blues, greens, and violets are considered cool.Warm colors tend to "advance" or "condense" a room, while cool colors "recede" or "expand" a room. Combining both warm and cool colors in a decorating scheme intensifies the temperature of the respective colors. Intensity Intensity (or chroma) refers to a color's purity or brightness and, conversely, its dullness. The purer or less gray a color, the more intensity it has. Bright yellow and cherry red are high-intensity colors; ochre and brick are low-intensity colors. Try usin...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
  The data is in for the July housing reports in the Tallahassee real estate market. Even though I am still in New York City, I am able to download the data and I brought my spreadsheets with me. Of course, the first thing that I did after I recorded the data for the month of July was look to the Year over Year Housing Report to see how we did. Year Over Year Home Sales Decline For Record 37th Consecutive Month Every month I look to this real estate graph with the hope that we will see the next step in the turn of the housing market in Tallahassee. When we look at the history of home sales in Tallahassee, we cannot find a time when more than nine months in succession were recorded with the same trend. We see runs of nine months in a row positive, and we see some runs of nine months in a...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
My wife is attending her 20th highschool reunion in Long Island, NY this coming Saturday, so the family and I decided to make it a summer vacation. Just to make it more entertaining, rather than fly or drive form Tallahassee, we chose to take the train. We picked up the Amtrak train in Jacksonville, Florida and stayed on the train from 5:30 p.m. on Monday until noon on Tuesday. With merely 18 stops along the way, it was quite an adventure. Since we have made it safely to New York, 1/2 of our train experience is completed. I have never taken such a long trip on a train, but it was definitely a positive experience. We had a few set-backs, like the train dying on the track and us having to jump trains (which resulted in our bags arriving six hours behind us). But nevertheless, it was neat...
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32308-Tallahassee (Brockswood Park) MLS #198421 FOR SALE$205,000 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(9) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(9) Details Address: 1005 McClendon Drive Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Suite: No Living Area: 1,807 square feet Year Built: 1957 More Details Description All brick home centrally located in prestigious Old Town- Just two blocks to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, Walgreens, Old Town Cafe, and schools. Hardwood floors throughout. Minimal cosmetic touchs needed along with kitchen upgrades. Show today!More Description Brokered and Advertised by ...
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32311-Tallahassee (Louvinia Lakes) MLS #198336 FOR SALE$349,500 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(13) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(13) Details Address: 4223 Louvinia Dr Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 2 Suite: No Living Area: 2,501 square feet Year Built: 1984 More Details Description Great house for raising kids! Five big bedrooms, huge fenced yard, plus recent updates: granite counters in kitchen, recent applicances, new roof, terra cotta floors, and flat screen tv too!!!! Special showing instructions: call agent - evenings and weekends only please - to accomodate health...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
eadership at the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog is growing, but we have found that a good number of our subscribers are reading our daily feed through an RSS reader or our feedburner email feed. This means that the daily content is being delivered to them directly, without them even having to visit our site. This is a super-convenient way to receive information about Tallahassee housing and real estate market reports, but these readers just might be missing out on some of the new upgrades that we have made to our real estate blog. Real Estate Blog Sidebar Is Loaded With Special Features The purpose of today’s blog is to show our readers, through the video below, how to use the sidebar and its contents. If you have not checked out the sidebar in a while, you just might be surprised at some...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
  When I first got into the real estate business in Tallahassee, the multiple listing system (Tallahassee MLS) was not computerized. We all submitted our listings and every three weeks or so, a new “MLS Book” was published. Sorting through this colossal printed assembly was not fun. We would sit with buyers and show them grainy black and white photos of what was available. Sorting through homes for sale in Tallahassee was another problem. One section of the book contained all the three bedroom homes, the next four bedroom homes, etc. So if a homeowner wanted to properly market their 4 bedroom home, it would show up in the four bedroom section, but it would also show up in the three bedroom section under another listing number. I suspect that this is where the practice of listing a home ...
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32317-Tallahassee (Lake Cassie) MLS #198254 FOR SALE$225,000 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(10) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(10) Details Address: 1824 Benado Lomas Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 Suite: No Living Area: 2,137 square feet Year Built: 2004 More Details Description SHORT SALE! All offers pending lien holder's approval. Beautiful like new home with plenty of space in and out. Large Open floor plan, kitchen has large eat in area, spacious master bedroom with sitting area - screened porch with deck. On over an acre in gated community - Lake Cassie -More Desc...
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32303-Tallahassee (Oak Valley) MLS #198253 FOR SALE$98,000 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(5) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(5) Details Address: 5391 Water Valley Dr Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Suite: No Living Area: 1,134 square feet Year Built: 1991 More Details Description SHORT SALE! All offers contingent on lien holder approval. Property needs lots of TLC. NEGATIVES: needs carpet/paint, smells of cigarettes, needs garage doors, one broken window, A/C needs to be repaired, dirty & messy. POSITIVES: LOCATION, POTENTIAL, SIZE OF LOT, STRUCTURALLY SOUND. Great for i...
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(Riverking Custom Painting)
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